This Blog Hop is a fun project that connects artists, designers, writers, illustrators and more from around the world and helps our followers discover new talent. We all answer the same four questions about our creative work and then tag the next person to do the same. I was invited to participate by a fellow artist and blogger Samyak Yamauchi from Portland. Check out her work! ( still have to find an artist to tag!)

Question #1Why do you do what you do?

I am compelled to paint. I have found the reason that I exist on this planet and it is to paint. Painting everyday has not gotten boring or work-like. It is just too damn much fun! I did not know that I was destined to be a painter. Finding that I had a passion in life and being able to follow that passion wherever it takes me is a joyful ride.Question #2

How does your work differ from other of its genre?

I am self taught, and self learning. My medium of choice is recycled house paint. I use squirt bottles to apply paint to canvas more often that brushes. My sense of color has always been pretty good and gets better all the time. I am the one that friends call when they cannot pick out a house color. Genre? Not sure I have one. Lemee check the bottom of my purse to see, and I will get back to you on that.

Question #3

How does your creative process work?

I normally paint on un-stretched canvas laid flat on my work table. I buy bolts of pre-primed canvas and cut off a section at a time. A blank canvas is thrilling to me. I may or may not have an idea of what I am going to do ahead of time. I like to just put paint down and see what happens. If it is gawd-awful, it goes to the "Hall of Shame" and will come out later to be painted over again. House paint is thin and self-leveling so if I want texture on the canvas I have to figure that out. The figuring out part of painting is wonderfully challenging.

Question #4

What are you working on now?

Ha ha! That is a funny question! I paint every day! I am always working on something. Well, actually oodles of somethings! There is a paint a "painting a day"challenge that I am doing for 30 days. My artist friends have all joked to me that - I will have to slow way down to do just ONE painting a day!